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9/11Tales of Cape Cod Interview with John (Jack) Bonnell, IV 117
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- Publication date
- 1978-03-28
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- Cape Cod (Mass.) - Social life and customs
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 126.2M
John (Jack) Bonnell interview with Tales of Cape Cod, March 28, 1978. Born in 1892, Bonnell describes his experiences living on Cape Cod including bullraking, digging clams, and tautog fishing; transportation to the Cape by train, early automobiles and motorcycles; early electric lights and kerosene lanterns; dentistry on the Cape in the early 20th century; Billingsgate Island; rum runners, and being the captain of a charter fishing boat.
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The Tales of Cape Cod Oral History Collection is housed at the William Brewster Nickerson Archives in the Wilkens Library at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. For more information about the collection, please contact the Nickerson Archives, http://www.nickersonarchives.org/.
